Gold pen



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b Pen.

No.10,348. Patented Dec. 20,1853.

UNITED STATES PATENT ornicn.

EDMUND H. BARD AND HENRY H. WILSON, OE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GOLD PEN.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 10,348, dated December 20, 1853;Antedated July 14, 1853.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDMUND H. BARD and HENRY H. WnisoN, copartnersunder the firm of Bard & Wilson, of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in theConstruction of Gold Pens; and we do hereby declare that the followingis a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of our invention consists in the combination of the pointcommonly called the French point, (which is made by compressing thesides thereof into planes, inclined angularly) and the ordinary cylindrical barrel whereby the pen in being used has all the advantages ofthe lateral action of the one, and can be inserted in the ordinarypenholder as in the other.

To enable others to make and use our invention we proceed to describeits construction and operation.

After the pen is out out in the rough into the desired shape, it isplaced in a die the sides of which, from the shoulder to the point, areplanes inclined so as to form an obtuse angle with each other, while theother portion of the die retains the ordinary cylindrical form, whichcauses the pen to assume the form aforesaid, as is shown in theaccompanying drawings.

tofore constructed in which a portion of the metal has been filed awayfrom the sides of the nib so as to give elasticity to the pen by adiminished thickness of metal. Although the "external surface of thesides of the nib so filed presents somewhat the appearance of twoplanes, yet the inner surface of the nibs preserves its. cylindricalshape. The elasticity of such pens is due to the reduced thickness ofthe metal at the part filed and is not due to the divergence of theangular planes forming the sides of the nub during the action ofwriting. Such pens are inferior to the pens invented by us in elasticityand durability. Being of unequal thickness of metal they are apt tobreak at the part where the metal is filed down.

Our pens on the contrary are of uniform thickness, are made by thesingle action of, the dies without any subsequent filing and owe theirelasticity solely to the action of the angular planes forming the sidesof the nib.

Having thus described our improvement, we do not desire to claim theemployment of flat nibs when composed of two pieces, as such pens havebeen heretofore made; but

\Vhat we claim, and desire to secure by ner hereinbefore described.

' EDMUND H. BARD.

H. H. WILSON. Witnesses C. W. HENRY, JOHN B. GEsT.

